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Mark your calendars for the 2018 Annual Meeting, to be held on March 1 – 3 at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia). More details here. The Program and registration will be available in the coming months. We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta!

We are delighted to announce that the 2019 Annual Meeting will take place at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) on March 7 – 9. The Meeting was originally to have been hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder, but due to unforeseen circumstances the University was obliged to retract the bid. We are very grateful to the community of medievalists at the University of Pennsylvania for stepping in on relatively short notice. The Call for Papers will be distributed in January 2018.

The 2020 Annual Meeting will take place at the University of California, Berkeley, on March 26 – 28.

If your institution is interested in hosting the 2021 Annual Meeting, please contact Executive Director Lisa Fagin Davis for information about submitting a proposal. Ideally, the 2021 host should be located in an easily-reachable locale in the Mid- or Southwest, with meeting and hotel space for 300-400 attendees, institutional support, and a community of medievalists willing to organize and run the conference.

“Dante and Virgil in Conversation,” from Oxford: Bodleian Library, MS. Holkham Misc. 48, p. 67. © Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

To all Members of the Medieval Academy of America:

Members are hereby invited to submit nominations for the election of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America for 2018.

The title of Fellow was created in 1926 to recognize and honor those scholars among us who over the years have made outstanding contributions to Medieval Studies through their teaching, scholarship, and service. Nominations are encouraged in all the varied fields encompassed by Medieval Studies, and all members of the Medieval Academy are free to submit nominations. Those nominations are overseen by the Fellows Nominating Committee, which is empowered to intervene only if there is some notable inequity in the list of proposed nominees. Existing Fellows will cast their ballots in December and January. The election of 2018 will operate under the by-laws and procedures adopted in 2013 and revised in 2015.

Existing Fellows may also have chosen to become Emeriti or Emeritae Fellows, which has the effect of opening up additional slots the following year for the election of new Fellows. Such Emeriti/Emeritae Fellows retain the position of Fellow in every respect but relinquish their right to vote in the election of new Fellows.

Current bylaws prescribe that there may be a total of up to 125 Fellows who at the time of election are members of the Academy and residents of North America, and in addition up to 75 Corresponding Fellows who at the time of election are residents of countries outside of North America. Following the rules established by the current bylaws, three (3) slots are available for the year 2018, for which there must be at least six (6) nominations. For the nomination of Corresponding Fellows no established minimum number of nominations is required.

Instructions for submitting nominations are available here:
https://medievalacademy.site-ym.com/?page=Election_Procedure

Please refer to the lists of current Fellows before proposing a nomination:

Current Fellows:
https://medievalacademy.site-ym.com/?page=Fellows_List

Current Corresponding Fellows:  
https://medievalacademy.site-ym.com/page/CorrFellows

Nominations may be submitted by email (as a PDF attachment) to the Executive Director at LFD@TheMedievalAcademy.org or by mail to:

Lisa Fagin Davis, Executive Director
Medieval Academy of America
17 Dunster St., Suite 202
Cambridge, Mass. 02138

Nominations for the 2018 elections must be received by 1 November 2017. Unsuccessful nominations from previous years may be resubmitted. Please contact the Executive Director for further information.

Finally, please note that nominations are to be kept in strictest confidence, from the nominee as well as from others.

– John Van Engen, President of the Fellows

At the 2018 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Medieval Academy plenary lecture will be delivered by Prof. Sara Ritchey (University of Tennessee, Knoxville). We invite submissions for two sessions related to Prof. Ritchey’s lecture as well as sessions sponsored by the GSC and CARA:

Plenary-related sessions:
1) Medical Texts in Manuscript Culture
2) Saints as Therapy
Contact: Monica Green
Arizona State Univ.
SHPRS, Box 874302
Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
Phone: 480-965-5778
Fax: 480-965-0310
Email: monica.green@asu.edu

The Medieval Academy Graduate Student Committee will sponsor a roundtable titled “Meet the Editors: Tips and Techniques on Article Submission for Graduate Students” (Contact: Katherine Sedovic, sedovick@tcd.ie)

Finally, the MAA’s Committee for Centers and Regional Associations (CARA) will sponsor two roundtables:

1) The Twenty-First-Century Medievalist: Digital Methods, Career Diversity, and Beyond
2) Teaching a Diverse and Inclusive Middle Ages
Contact: Sarah Davis-Secord
Univ. of New Mexico
Dept. of History, MSC06 3760
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Phone: 505-277-2451 Fax: 505-277-6023
Email: scds@unm.edu

Proposals must be received by the session organizers by 15 September.

For more information and the full Call for Papers, click here:
https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress

Tripoli, Bohemond VI or VII, gold bezant, 1251-87. Courtesy of Princeton University Numismatic Collection.

The Medieval Academy of America invites applications for the following grants. Please note that applicants must be members in good standing as of September 15 in order to be eligible for Medieval Academy awards.

Birgit Baldwin Fellowship
The Birgit Baldwin Fellowship provides a grant of $20,000 to support a graduate student in a North American university who is researching and writing a dissertation for the Ph.D. on any subject in French medieval history that can be realized only by sustained research in the archives and libraries of France. It may be renewed for a second year upon demonstration of satisfactory progress. (Deadline 15 November 2017)

Schallek Fellowship
The Schallek Fellowship provides a one-year grant of $30,000 to support Ph.D. dissertation research in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain (ca. 1350-1500). (Deadline 15 October 2017)

Travel Grants
The Medieval Academy provides a limited number of travel grants to help Academy members who hold doctorates but are not in full-time faculty positions, or are contingent faculty without access to institutional funding, attend conferences to present their work. (Deadline 1 November 2017 for meetings to be held between 16 February and 31 August 2018)

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Photo: The Haskins Medal. The Medieval Academy of America

The Medieval Academy of America invites submissions for the following prizes, to be awarded at the 2018 MAA Annual Meeting (Emory University, 1-3 March). Submission instructions vary, but all dossiers must complete by 15 October 2017.

Haskins Medal
Awarded to a distinguished monograph in the field of medieval studies.

Digital Humanities Prize
Awarded to an outstanding digital research project or resource in the field of medieval studies.

Karen Gould Prize [NEW]
Awarded to a monograph of outstanding quality in medieval art history.

John Nicholas Brown Prize
Awarded to a first monograph of outstanding quality in the field of medieval studies.

Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize
Awarded to a first article of outstanding quality in the field of medieval studies.

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The MAA/CARA Conference Grant for Regional Associations and Programs will be awarded for the first time in 2017. The $1,000 award will help support a regional or consortial conference taking place in 2018.

Applications are due by 15 October 2017. Click here for more information: https://medievalacademy.site-ym.com/page/MAA_CARA_Grant

We congratulate Rega Wood (Indiana University, Bloomington) and her collaborators who have been awarded a major Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the Richard Rufus Project.

If you have good news to share, please contact Executive Director Lisa Fagin Davis.